Where does “땅강아지” come from?

땅강아지 (Korean) comes from Korean 강아지, from Korean 가히, from Korean -히, from Korean —이, from Middle Korean 이 — person.

땅강아지 (Korean): mole cricket

Definitions

  1. mole cricket

Ancestry of “땅강아지”, step by step

땅강아지 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Korean 강아지

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Korean강아지puppy; dog, doggy
2Korean가히rightly (so); readily
3Korean-히ly; an adverb-deriving suffix, attaching primarily to adjectives formed by the light verb
4Korean—이For non-honorific nouns ending in consonants, the nominative case particle marking it as the subject of a verb or adjective; see also Usage Notes
5Middle Koreanperson

via Korean

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Koreanearth, land
Every word from Middle Korean